Solid fert is quite a simple life to be honest.
Logistics of liquid suit us better if honest but we can do either
Solid fert is quite a simple life to be honest.
Just going back to the subject of whether a 724 will pull this drill, this must be a situation where one of those power units that fitted between tractor and implement would be useful. Can’t think what there called but remember an article on them in Power Farming back in the late 80s. An extra drive axle with a pair of wide tyres on it with a 120-150hp engine sat on top would make a hell of a difference and spread weight around better. Would just need some sort of vario drive with a pull sensor on the drawbar. Be ideal for someone like @Clive who wants to run light but pull big. Be ok for road moves as well. Just an extra pivot point.
Not sure on the technicalities but there was stuff like that been trialed with NIAE or something like that in the 80s. I just remember seeing a pic of one with a 90hp fiat on the front pulling some massive discs. The power yoke thingy was 110hp so basically turned it into a 200hp 6 wheel drive power unit.nice idea - does such a thiung exist ?
I do think we will be OK power wise though but i like your thinking !
complex to make work with a vario tractor though I guess
Not be simpler to buy a bigger tractor?
The Yoke was built by a friend of my fathers , we even tried it , it worked really well , however the project ran out of money and after lots of promises from the usual suspects and charlatans it folded , I believe it ended up in Saudi Arabia and never returned, what killed it apart from cash was the arrival of larger 4wd tractors.Just going back to the subject of whether a 724 will pull this drill, this must be a situation where one of those power units that fitted between tractor and implement would be useful. Can’t think what there called but remember an article on them in Power Farming back in the late 80s. An extra drive axle with a pair of wide tyres on it with a 120-150hp engine sat on top would make a hell of a difference and spread weight around better. Would just need some sort of vario drive with a pull sensor on the drawbar. Be ideal for someone like @Clive who wants to run light but pull big. Be ok for road moves as well. Just an extra pivot point.
A 280hp 724 would be handy.It would, if needs be that would be the best solution I’m sure, I would prefer not to however !
A 724 can be taken to 280hp I’m told as well and that engine does so in other models, again I would rather not do so however
But I really don’t think we will need to - Horsch recommendation is 230hp plus
I think everyone is thinking like tillage farmers ! - no till soils need far less power than ones that are moved and this drill really isn’t that many more coulters than the 750a it replaces
Is the fertiliser hopper solid or liquid, if it’s solid what starter fertiliser are you planning to use?
Film it please !
you've just killed the market for used JD 750A's.....
you've just killed the market for used JD 750A's.....
That Horsch will be parked in the nettles long before a 750 would. The coulter mount should never have gone beyond a short disc cultivator.
Why should it not be used? That statement needs an explanation to make it relevant.
There are compromises to be made and the steel spring based coulter down pressure system on the 750 is not as good as a hydraulic system on the cross slot. The pressure changes over the travel of the coulter. Indeed there are some instances where the spring has been replaced with a hydraulic cylinder albeit rare. As far as I can see the rubber sausage suspension compounds these issues and has more scope for early wear. The set up gives more potential for coulter sideways travel whereas on the 750 by the time you get to that point (years later) you can turn the pins round. Just my opinion of course.